Seafood Fresh Dishes, Good for Food Therapy

Author: Yang Shuyuan
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Aquatic products, including fish, crustaceans, algae, and other aquatic economic plants and animals, are one of the most important side foods in people's daily lives. Due to their delicious taste and rich nutrition, they are deeply loved by people. This book briefly introduces the types, distribution, characteristics, nutrition, cooking methods, and precautions of aquatic products, with a focus on selecting and introducing a series of dietary therapy recipes for readers to choose from. The content of the book is rich and quite practical. Aquatic products are not only delicious delicacies; like medicine, they also have properties such as cold, heat, warmth, and coolness. Most fish have a moderate nature and are relatively gentle, with functions such as invigorating blood, promoting diuresis, expelling dampness, improving appetite, and stimulating digestion. Sea cucumbers, shrimp, and similar products are warm in nature, sweet in taste, and have the effect of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang. Turtles and tortoises are moderate in nature and have the function of tonifying the liver and kidneys. Mussels and clams are mostly cold and cool in nature, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and have the effect of generating fluid and quenching thirst. Many raw materials for Chinese and Western medicines are derived from aquatic products, especially showing significant efficacy in the prevention and treatment of diseases such as cerebrovascular conditions, heart disease, cancer, calcium deficiency, and iodine deficiency.